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Not far from a sewage treatment plant, a landfill and the Maricopa County jail annex are the four schools and hundreds of families that make up the Murphy Elementary School District in south Phoenix. More than 80 percent of its residents are Hispanic, most of them poor and many undocumented.

Prosecutors are seeking the forfeiture of $4.2 million in cash, real estate and other property seized in an investigation of a former state employee charged with stealing millions of dollars from Arizona's health care program for the poor.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey wants able-bodied Arizonans on the state's Medicaid program for the poor to pay into health savings accounts and be charged co-pays for some services, but those proposals and others he's touting got a tough reception at the first meeting where the public was allowed to weigh in.

Conservative opponents of former Gov. Jan Brewer’s Medicaid expansion plan will finally get their day in court. Judge Douglas Gerlach will hear arguments in the case in Maricopa County Superior Court at 10 a.m. on Thursday.

Health care advocates dread the possibility that government subsidies on the federal exchanges would be struck down, but Barto would welcome a ruling against the federal government in King v. Burwell. Barto said it would provide the country its best opportunity to offer a better fix to America’s health care woes.

The Arizona Department of Corrections is prepared to spend more money to keep the company that provides health care to roughly 35,000 prisoners from following through on a threat to not renew its contract.

The Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest wants to intervene as a defendant in the lawsuit against Medicaid expansion, arguing that AHCCCS Director Tom Betlach does not necessarily represent the interests of its clients, four childless adults that are receiving Medicaid coverage as a result of the 2013 law.

Senate Bill 1318 now awaits the pen of Governor Doug Ducey. This anti-women's healthcare bill is egregious for many reasons, but its provision on so-called medical abortion reversal is tantamount to quackery.